Peggy Fikac: Pink Pique

Things have been quiet — too quiet — after last weekend’s Austin American-Statesman vs. Pink Dome flareup sparked by a blog fight between two gubernatorial campaigns.

It all started with skirmishing on Gov. Rick Perry’s blog between Perry’s camp and challenger Carole Keeton Strayhorn’s spokesman Mark Sanders.

When Perry’s folks resorted to posting Sanders’ 1980s photo from his days in the Capitol press corps — complete with of-the-era eyeglasses and big mustache — it caught the attention of the Statesman’s Jason Embry.

Embry’s reference in his item to In the Pink Texas as “the only political blog in the state that’s actually, you know, funny” drew the notice of Pink Dome, which lashed back Sunday at Embry’s “teenage skill level” of insult.